DEWALT DW7352 Replaceable Knives for DW735 13-Inch Planer

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Product Description

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A planer is necessary for all wood finishing jobs, but a quality planer needs quality knives. The DEWALT DW7352 replaceable knives for the DW735 Planer help your planer get the job done well. Crafted from M2 laminated tool steel, these blades outlast the industry standard and are double sided for continual performance. The machined locator holes make installation a snap by aligning with the cutter-head. Choose these blades as a better, more convenient and cost effective alternative to sharpening.

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DEWALT DW7352 Replaceable Knives for DW735 13 Inch Planer

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000CCXUB
• California residents: Click here for Proposition 65 warning.
• Item model number: DW7352
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (37 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,553 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
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Customer Reviews

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68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Yes, but..., October 7, 2004

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Marc Ruby™ "The Noh Hare™" (Warren, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEWALT DW7352 Replaceable Knives for DW735 13-Inch Planer (Tools & Home Improvement)

These are the standard replacement for blades in the DW735. No surprise then that they work exactly as well as the originals. Which means that when they are sharp they work quite well. And when they are not you can reverse them. When that side is exhausted you can replace them.

I find that about 200 board feet of 5/4 by 8" hard maple is where the blades start to show wear - a dining room table's worth in realtime terms. Nicks can be suppressed by adjusting the blades laterally so that one blade removes the fault one of the others creates. To be honest, given the price of these strips of metal, I would like them to either last longer or be sharpenable. Although the prospect of sharpening 13" cutting edges does not thrill me.

What I would like to see is someone to start making aftermarket blades, carbide if possible. These are just pricey enough that I would be willing to pay just a bit more to get a few hundred more board feet out of a set. Lacking that, this is our only choice, and it is the single biggest flaw in the DW735 planer design.

39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The toner cartridges of woodworking, November 17, 2004

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E. Fuller - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEWALT DW7352 Replaceable Knives for DW735 13-Inch Planer (Tools & Home Improvement)

Yes, like toner cartridges, these blades don't last long and forever need replacing. For that reason I sold my DW735 and switched back to a DW733...I could not afford the blade habit! If you use exotics, or simply use your planer a lot, I would not recommend the DW735, as they obviously switched to non-sharpenable blades in order to hook you on their VERY overpriced replacements. If you get 3-400 BF out of a set, consider yourself lucky!

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DW735 knife life is very short., November 15, 2005

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Kevin M. Campbell (Illinois) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DEWALT DW7352 Replaceable Knives for DW735 13-Inch Planer (Tools & Home Improvement)

I purchased my DW735 as a quicky (read: impulsive) replacement for a Jet JWP12 that died in the middle of a job. (The poly belt broke.) Uncharacteristically, I didn't research the tool before buying. I should have. Although the planer is satisfactory, the knives are not. I planed about 80 lineal feet (yes, JUST 80 feet!) of antique white oak 1x6s before suddenly finding the blades too dull for the feed rollers to overcome the resistance. This occurred suddenly...within the span of three boards! Going along just fine in the "dimensioning" mode when the feed became slower and slower until finally, the boards quit feeding. The dull knives offered too much resistance. I cleaned the feed rollers with acetone, thinking there was contamination causing them to lose friction. This helped for one board, then the feeding stopped again. These boards were salvaged church kneelers from 1900. I had rough planed them of old varnish and grit to clean wood with a DW675 power hand planer and then ran them through the DW735 to true and thickness to 3/4". Surprised and annoyed, I flipped the knives and continued with the project. I surfaced another 50 linear feet without incident. A few days later, I start another job that required surface planing some 2x10 Select structural Doug fir. These were new clean planks. I managed to surface two sides of one plank before the feed stopped again. Cleaning the rollers had no effect. The blades were SHOT! I tried just a very shallow pass (the material removal gauge didn't even register that material would be removed, but failed halfway through when the planer kicked out a 20 amp dedicated breaker. Cranked up the planer head and removed the plank. The resultant stopped cut was barely perceptible, perhaps less than 1/64th of an inch. Hardly a heavy cut! I've seen some snipe that was greater. So, now I've got two planers and both down! I've ordered replacement knives, but what a PITA. The knives on the Jet were three years since replacement with a huge amount of varied lumber under their belt and although not sharp, still managed to bull through some 2x10s without complaint. I've found some aftermarket knives for the DW735 online at Infinity Cutting [...]. Apparently not laminated or reversible, but anything is better than the stock knives!